TOS was an action adventure show that occasionally gave us a "feel good" message by the final act. A message usually proceeded by fisticuffs and gunfire. If they could have afforded explosions every week, we would have them too.

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Every single episode of TOS had a philosophical or scientific message of some kind. Stop trying to revise history please.

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The philosophical and scientific messages have been highly overinterpreted. Star Trek is a campy children's show from the 60s. But the children are grown ups now and still like it, so they try to find deep substance in the show where none is.

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It was not a camp childrens show ( at least the version marketed and shown in America. Might be different in "L'Europe". )

At what point did Kirk have an alcohol problem? Getting in a bar fight doesn't make someone an alcoholic.

You keep calling him an imbecile? What exactly did he do that makes you think that? Yes, he was a bit obnoxious. And yes, he was a bit arrogant. He's practically a kid! Destroying Nero's ship? That's your evidence? Nero was a genocidal mass-murderer guilty of destroying an entire planet and nearly destroying another. He gave Nero the chance to surrender. Nero didn't take it. Under the circumstances, Nero was not worth trying to save.

TOS was an action adventure show that occasionally gave us a "feel good" message by the final act. A message usually proceeded by fisticuffs and gunfire. If they could have afforded explosions every week, we would have them too.

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Every single episode of TOS had a philosophical or scientific message of some kind. Stop trying to revise history please.

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No.

But, seriously, you've had nothing to say about ST09's messages, which I spelled out way back on page one. Nor my subsequent posts, where I backed up my assertations about Gene Rodenberry's revisionism and Trek's flawed continuity with links and quotes.

If TOS taught us anything, it's that people with alcohol problems would have gotten help long before they would be able to go on this series of mis-steps. Yes, there was the bar fight in trouble with tribbles, but it did not alter the central characters, or their moral approach to other humans and other species.

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I'm really beginning to question whether you've seen TOS or not. Scotty was an alcoholic, see By Any Other Name or The Tholian Web and McCoy was borderline.

In order to create a space/time portal, like the one witnessed in DS9, that we know as a 'wormhole' you have to have two points of the curvature of space/time meeting and effectively lessening the distance between two points. But in DS9, with the bajoran wormhole, it was space you were traversing, not time. But the same parameters apply. Both are based in relativity, and have potential for logical scientific explanation even in a fictional universe based on scientific principles. This red matter/black hole/time portal non-sense does not!

In order to create a space/time portal, like the one witnessed in DS9, that we know as a 'wormhole' you have to have two points of the curvature of space/time meeting and effectively lessening the distance between two points. But in DS9, with the bajoran wormhole, it was space you were traversing, not time. But the same parameters apply. Both are based in relativity, and have potential for logical scientific explanation even in a fictional universe based on scientific principles. This red matter/black hole/time portal non-sense does not!

PIKE: Because I looked up your file while you were drooling on the floor. Your aptitude tests are off the charts, so what is it? You like being the only genius-level repeat offender in the midwest?

Just to provide some facts.

One can discuss whether Kirk wouldn't be a more complex character if he had some of those traits prominent in the first season of TOS and the Meyer films.
One can discuss whether the Tattoomulans should have been less one-dimensional.
One can discuss whether the movie sacrificed thematic depth at the cost of action and pacing.

But going off the deep end, calling Kirk an imposter or an imbecile, is not an actual discussion, it s a stupid rant without substance. Nothing against polemics but not on such a low level.

PIKE: Because I looked up your file while you were drooling on the floor. Your aptitude tests are off the charts, so what is it? You like being the only genius-level repeat offender in the midwest?

Just to provide some facts.

One can discuss whether Kirk wouldn't be a more complex character if he had some of those traits prominent in the first season of TOS and the Meyer films.
One can discuss whether the Tattoomulans should have been less one-dimensional.
One can discuss whether the movie sacrificed thematic depth at the cost of action and pacing.

But going off the deep end, calling Kirk an imposter or an imbecile, is not an actual discussion, it s a stupid rant without substance. Nothing against polemics but not on such a low level.

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If imposter kirk presented substance of any kind, I would be the first to discuss it.

In order to create a space/time portal, like the one witnessed in DS9, that we know as a 'wormhole' you have to have two points of the curvature of space/time meeting and effectively lessening the distance between two points. But in DS9, with the bajoran wormhole, it was space you were traversing, not time. But the same parameters apply. Both are based in relativity, and have potential for logical scientific explanation even in a fictional universe based on scientific principles. This red matter/black hole/time portal non-sense does not!

PIKE: Because I looked up your file while you were drooling on the floor. Your aptitude tests are off the charts, so what is it? You like being the only genius-level repeat offender in the midwest?

Just to provide some facts.

One can discuss whether Kirk wouldn't be a more complex character if he had some of those traits prominent in the first season of TOS and the Meyer films.
One can discuss whether the Tattoomulans should have been less one-dimensional.
One can discuss whether the movie sacrificed thematic depth at the cost of action and pacing.

But going off the deep end, calling Kirk an imposter or an imbecile, is not an actual discussion, it s a stupid rant without substance. Nothing against polemics but not on such a low level.

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If imposter kirk presented substance of any kind, I would be the first to discuss it.

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Kirk is capitalized like any name and he is not an imposter just cause you say so. If your posts provided any substance I would be the first one to discuss with you.

In order to create a space/time portal, like the one witnessed in DS9, that we know as a 'wormhole' you have to have two points of the curvature of space/time meeting and effectively lessening the distance between two points. But in DS9, with the bajoran wormhole, it was space you were traversing, not time. But the same parameters apply. Both are based in relativity, and have potential for logical scientific explanation even in a fictional universe based on scientific principles. This red matter/black hole/time portal non-sense does not!

I am reminded of some nighttime scene where a group of somewhat patient, rational adults are trying to calm and reason with a frantic child who wants to challenge and debate them as he demands that they acknowledge that there ARE ghosts in his closet....

He is Kirk. Just as later TOS is Kirk, even though he's different than Season One Kirk. And TWOK-TUC Kirk is Kirk even though he's different than TOS1 Kirk and TOS2-3 Kirk. Now TMP Kirk, I don't know who the hell that guy is.

In order to create a space/time portal, like the one witnessed in DS9, that we know as a 'wormhole' you have to have two points of the curvature of space/time meeting and effectively lessening the distance between two points. But in DS9, with the bajoran wormhole, it was space you were traversing, not time. But the same parameters apply. Both are based in relativity, and have potential for logical scientific explanation even in a fictional universe based on scientific principles. This red matter/black hole/time portal non-sense does not!